Weigh Station Fines For Damaged Truck !!!!!!!!!!!

[BareFoot]

Just relized after about 600hrs playing ( lmao) why dont we get fines from weigh stations , im not talking about missing them and getting fined for not going through , Why do you pass EVERY time? I understand your never really "overweight" which is a whole other discussion on its own (SLIDING AXLES ;) lol) but with the realism that they do a fairly good job in pertraying in this game. You would think that if you roll into a weigh staion with any kind of damage really you should get a fine.

With the amount of safety regulations IRL i think it would be a good idea for them to add something like this in. Reallistically in the game theres is no big push to get your truck fixed other then the warning to go to the shop and the odd shut down. Other then fixing your truck theres no finacial penalty for running "unsafe". They could also add in more annoyances to the truck repair as in, not having working signals one or the other or both (traffic wont yeild to you) , headlights flickering on and off at night or completly shutting down. Then it could be worked into a fine at the weigh station (Bad Tires , Signal light out, and damage to truck body = X amount of money in fines or whatever is wrong with your truck) or mabey they deem your truck unsafe and force you to get towed to the shop with a fine ontop. I think this would be an amazing feature to the game , by no means do i know anything about developing or coding but does this not seem doable ? HELL ID EVEN PAY FOR IT IN A DLC SCS ( if done very well ;) what do you guys think an idea ?

[shoopy]

Seems like a lot of work for something I would never see.

Is it normal for people to beat their trucks to death?

[BareFoot]

from what iv read alot of people let it go farther then you think , i personally dont let it get past like 2% , its the little things in the end that make great immersion

[BareFoot]

why have weigh stations then ?

[J4MESOX4D]

The problem is general wear and tear on long trips can see your truck 'damaged' so it would be a kick in the teeth to be fined for something like this. I think weight stations are just a realism inclusion feature and I wouldn't expect them to be worked on for greater effect.

[BareFoot]

theres lots of time and route options to ensure you keep your truck repaired before you hit the station , ever wonder why we reroute around them in real life lol , would be another thing to worry about , still love the game after 600 hrs but it could use some more realism in many aspects

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Anita Bonghit:

theres lots of time and route options to ensure you keep your truck repaired before you hit the station

That would just make the game more unrealistic as you would have to find a garage every 250 miles and insta-repair your truck just to avoid a fine on a weigh station down the line. I've never heard of truckers having to do full services in between jobs with a trailer on their backs.

I did a job from Eureka to Clovis with a fresh truck and by the end I had incurred 6% damage through wear and tear and did 4 weigh stations en route. It would have been an utter pain if I had to stop off at Bakersfield, Kingman, Phoenix and Gallup with a heavy haul trailer just to swerve any potential fines with the most unrealistic of game mechanics where trucks can be repaired instantly.

Weigh Stations are nothing more than a minor inclusion for a little more immersion on how trucking works in the US. ATS is a more semi-realistic simulator that prides on enjoyment more than pinpoint real life accuarcy.

[dnthomps]

I like your idea but it has to be done in stages. For example under 5%, no-fine, Under 10% a warning and a fine on your 2nd infraction. 15% Is a small fine and 20% is a large fine.

My tires and body seem to wear at 1% per 1000km driven so stopping at a repair station once every 10th job doesn't seem unreasonable.

[J4CKI3]

I posted a thread for something similar to this a while ago, partaining to system failures. The answers I got were that there were two big reasons this is unlikely to happen. The biggest problem is licensing, companies wouldn't like it if systems on their trucks could just fail like that, and SCS needs their permissions for them to be in the game legally. The other problem is that implementing these features at all would be very difficult, maybe even impossible, with this game engine.

[BareFoot]

yeh i can see the limitations and the issues that would come but i mean it just seems so bland thats why there mods to turn the weigh stations off , i get that there an incusion for immersion but they just feel so pointless , drive in always pass and leave , i dont know just seems like something is missing there , it would definetly need alot of work and planning but i do think its doable if its done right , they could adjust the amount of damge and wear and tear to work around this feature . they need to add SOMETHING to the weigh stations at least some way that you dont pass or something you have to do , mabey theres a chance you get pulled in for an inspection ( very small ) and you have to wait an hour parked at the weigh station for your "inspection" it doesnt have to get as in depth as i explained above but it does seem like there something missing there